AUTOMATIC MAP READING FOR DISTRIBUTION-SYSTEM DESIGN

The paper describes how an architect's map is understood and used to give an electrical equivalent indicating the position and magnitude of electrical loads. The work shows that all of the houses on a map can be recognised, even for occluded and noisy cases, by the use of several basic image processing techniques. The road layout, which consists essentially of long narrow strips, is recognised also. This information may be passed directly to the distribution system design software.